Ligota Górna (Kluczbork)

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Ligota Górna
Ober Ellguth
Ligota Górna Ober Ellguth does not have a coat of arms
Ligota Górna Ober Ellguth (Poland)
Ligota Górna Ober Ellguth
Ligota Górna
Ober Ellguth
Basic data
State : Poland
Voivodeship : Opole
Powiat : Kluczbork
Gmina : Kluczbork
Geographic location : 50 ° 58 ′  N , 18 ° 15 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 14 ″  N , 18 ° 15 ′ 19 ″  E
Residents : 443 (March 31, 2011)
Postal code : 46-200
Telephone code : (+48) 77
License plate : OKL
Economy and Transport
Street : DK 11 Kołobrzeg - Bytom
DK 45 Wieluń - Racibórz
Next international airport : Wroclaw



Ligota Górna ( German Ober Ellguth ) is a place of Gmina Kluczbork in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland .

geography

Ligota Górna is located in the northwestern part of Upper Silesia in the Kreuzburger Land. Ligota Górna is about three kilometers east of the municipal seat of Kluczbork and about 52 kilometers northeast of the voivodeship capital Opole.

The village lies on the Stober . To the south of the village is the approx. 60 hectare rainwater retention basin Zbiornik retencyjny Kluczbork .

The national roads Droga krajowa 11 and Droga krajowa 45 run through Ligota Górna .

Neighboring places of Ligota Górna are in the northwest of the hamlet Ligota Zamecka ( Schloss-Ellguth ), in the northeast Bogdańczowice ( Wüttendorf ) and in the southeast of the hamlet Dobrzyny ( Dochhammer ).

history

Old farmsteads on an old photograph in Ober Ellguth
Schrotholzkirche zum Heiligen Kreuz

In 1764 a Protestant school was set up in Ober Ellguth. In 1845 there was a Protestant school and 47 houses in the village. In the same year 421 people lived in Ober Ellguth, 75 of them Catholic. In 1861 389 people lived in Ober Ellguth. In 1874 the district of Bankau is founded, to which Ober Ellguth belongs.

In 1933 509 lived in Ober Ellguth. On April 1, 1938, the rural community of Schloss-Ellguth was incorporated into the community of Ober Ellguth. In 1939 the community of Ober Ellguth had 1,166 inhabitants. Until 1945 the village belonged to the Kreuzburg OS district

As a result of the Second World War, Ober Ellguth fell under Polish administration in 1945, like most of Silesia . The place was subsequently renamed Ligota Górna and joined the Silesian Voivodeship. In 1950 it was incorporated into the Opole Voivodeship. In 1999 the place came to the newly founded Powiat Kluczborski ( Kreuzburg district ).

In 2012, the 60 hectare rain retention basin for regulating the stober, south of Ligota Górna, was completed. This is also used as a swimming lake.

Attractions

  • The Protestant scrap wood church of the Holy Cross was built in 1787 as a cemetery chapel.

Web links

Commons : Ligota Górna (Kluczbork)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CIS 2011: Ludność w miejscowościach statystycznych według ekonomicznych grup wieku (Polish), March 31, 2011, accessed on December 1, 2018
  2. ^ Johann Georg Knie : Alphabetical-statistical-topographical overview of the villages, spots, cities and other places of the royal family. Preuss. Province of Silesia. Breslau 1845, p. 120.
  3. ^ Home district association Kreuzburg
  4. ↑ a b Territorial district of Bankau
  5. ↑ a b Administrative history - Kreis Kreuzburg OS ( Memento from September 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Opening of the reservoir (Polish)
  7. ↑ List of Monuments of the Opole Voivodeship p. 44 (Polish)